Critics praised the game's Mode 7 graphics ; in 1992 Nintendo Magazine System described them as superb and the graphics have since been described as among the best ever seen on the SNES.

Although it remains a controversial film, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and, while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006 and is the subject of an article in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural ( 1986 ).

Critics praised System Shock and hailed it as a major innovation in its genre.

Critics later frequently praised both the film's aesthetic quality and its power.

Critics praised Curry's performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Roger Ebert called him " the best thing in the movie, maybe because he seems to be having the most fun.

Critics found the film ’ s plot and characterization unconvincing, but praised its action sequences.

Critics praised the films style and artistic camera movements.

Critics praised the film, which also proved to be a success with audiences.

Critics praised the suspenseful atmosphere in her next film, Escape ( 1940 ), where she played the lover of a Nazi general who helps an American free his mother from a concentration camp.

Critics have found it unremarkable, but the Symphony in C of the same year has been warmly praised by later commentators who have made favourable comparisons with Mozart and Schubert.

Critics Bob Porfiero and Alain Silver, in a review and analysis of the film, praised Lupino's use of shooting locations.

Critics praised the film for its delicate handling of sensitive subject matter and attention to detail and dramatic qualities.

Critics praised the film and its " new " director, with The New York Times commenting that the film was " sharply directed by Allen Smithee who has an adroit facility for scanning faces and extracting sharp background detail ," and Roger Ebert commenting, " Director Allen Smithee, a name I'm not familiar with, allows his story to unfold naturally.

Critics praised The Secret of Monkey Island for its humor, audiovisuals, and gameplay.

Critics were at first irritated by the layer of mystification, but most praised the substance, structure, and orchestration of the work.

Critics praised the film not only for its satire of the rollercoaster lifestyles of rock stars but also for its take on the non-fiction film genre.

Critics have praised her meticulous research of settings and events presented in her fiction, as well as the characterizations.

Critics have praised the overall story in Fruits Basket as being intellectual, with even the relatively light-hearted first volume giving hints at something darker in the background that makes the reader " question everything that happens.

Critics generally praised the overall gameplay.

Critics have praised the band for their ability to write infectious hooks and the sincerity of their lyrics, often about growing up and relationships.

Critics mostly praised the film and Edward Norton was given an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Critics noted that Shorter seemed more suited to this album than he had to its predecessor, contributing more ; and the album was praised for its energetic compositions.

Critics worldwide have praised the film for its Expressionist style, complete with wild, distorted set design.

Critics have praised the film's witty dialogue, written by Tedd Pierce, such as Hazel's question to Bugs-in-costume: " Tell me, who undoes your hair?

Critics complimented the film's special effects, but criticized some of the darker aspects of the film, which had been marketed to a young audience.

Critics such as Roger Ebert, however, found the film's message to be deeper than Scott's Gladiator.

Critics panned the film's gratuitous action sequences, which were significantly scaled up from the previous film, and which many critics felt added little to the film.

Critics claimed the inclusion of this material gives a platform to unapologetic neo-Nazis despite the film's strongly anti-Nazi theme.

The film's script won the National Society of Film Critics award for Best Screenplay.

Critics generally responded especially positively to the film's aesthetics.

Critics have seen Mookie's action both as an action that saves Sal's life, by redirecting the crowd's anger away from Sal to his property, and as an " irresponsible encouragement to enact violence ".

Critics cited poor graphics compared to other 3D action adventures of the time and Tim Schafer's lack of involvement in the project as possible reasons for its cancellation.

Critics of this theory propose an idea that infidelity is prevented through social monitoring of one ’ s mate and action once there is a violation of expectation ( Harris, 2004 ).

Critics also pointed out the council itself would not be allowed to take any action against the parties as evidence the court action demonstrated a misuse of funds.

Critics also suggest that fundamentalist religious prohibitions against divorce make it more difficult for religious men or women to leave an abusive marriage: A 1985 survey of Protestant clergy in the United States by Jim M Alsdurf found that 21 % of them agreed that " no amount of abuse would justify a woman's leaving her husband ever ", and 26 % agreed with the statement that " a wife should submit to her husband and trust that God would honour her action by either stopping the abuse or giving her the strength to endure it.

Critics contend Connerly fails to recognize the damaging extent of past racism for African Americans and Hispanics, that contemporary institutionalized racism is pervasive and powerful, and that affirmative action can overcome the residual effects of past discrimination on people of color.

Critics blame DTCC as being in charge of the system where it happens, say that DTCC turns a blind eye to the problem, and that the Securities and Exchange Commission has not taken sufficient action against naked shorting.

Critics commented on the general absence of action in Shadow of Memoriess gameplay.

( Critics of this argument have replied that these authors have missed human neuropsychological and TMS studies reporting disruption of these areas do indeed cause action deficits without affecting other kinds of perception.

Critics contended that this action was a political move because Cox was running for governor.

Critics charge that this bill makes it far more difficult to bring class action suits, and may prolong such litigation, clogging the federal courts ' dockets.

Critics found Hard Target to have good action scenes but noted the weak script and poor quality acting from Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Critics gave the programme the thumbs down, which finally precipitated action on the part of the Festival Board.

Critics of the BDM charge that Stuart and Smith often engage in radical political action to ' grandstand ' and claim that this behavior ultimately precludes the organization from fading into obscurity.

Critics have difficulty in determining a genre for the game ; it has been called a platform game and Roguelike, as well as action and action-adventure.

Critics have called such affirmative action for the Malays to be racial discrimination against other Malaysian citizens, with the goal of creating ketuanan Melayu ( Malay supremacy ).

Critics such as Roger Ebert felt that film was unfunny, and that " Like many kids their age, these three are more bold in talk than action, and the movie sounds right ; it sounds like undergraduate human dialogue, intended to shock, to liberate, to amuse.

Critics like Meaghan Morris have argued that postmodern feminism runs the risk of undercutting the basis of a politics of action based upon gender difference, through its very anti-essentialism.

Critics also praised the performances of Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy with Roger Ebert stating on his review that McAdams ' " performance is so convincing because she keeps it at ground level " and that " she remains plausible even when the action ratchets up around her.

Critics often made comparisons to the early spaghetti western pictures made by filmmakers such as Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, hailing the film for its action sequences and dark humour.